SLA cordons, searches Kallikaddaikadu village

[TamilNet, Monday, 23 January 2006, 07:20 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers cordoned off Kallikaddaikadu village in the north western Mannar District and conducted house-to-house search operation Monday morning, sources in Mannar said. Nearly fifty families with about 180 members reside in Kallikaddaikadu which is a traditional Tamil village.

The search operation lasted for four hours, residents said.

Villagers were ordered to stay in their houses till the search Concluded. It is not known if any arrests were made, they said.

Kallikaddaikadu village is located about 10 km east of Mannar town on Madawachchi-Mannar main road.